Gearing Up for the FTE

Does everyone have their storm preps done? At this writing (Thursday night) the Big Storm of Doom is stretching all the way back to the Dako...

How to Cook Maple Syrup

I should say this is ONE way to cook maple sap into maple syrup. We are probably doing it wrong but it totally worked! So we were really exc...

It was a chicken-tastic day!

We've been working our way thru the winter meat chickens so this week has been about parting up heaps of meat. I had a complete and to...

Smoked Duck and Bacon Hash

That's what we had for blunch today.... it was really great. Bacon - from the yard . Duck - smoked it a while ago Taters - home grown an...

A Fabulous Pancetta

Remember t hat shockingly beautiful belly piece we got from our last pork butcher day ? It was naturally rolled which made it a candidate fo...

How about a little petit déjeuner?

Croissants. Nailed it. Any body want to come on over for a little chocolat chaud  and some croissants? It's what's for breakfast. Fi...

Complicated Pastry Day - Part Two

I just loved my Complicated Pastry Days so much I just can't stop talking about them. So now... the puff pastry portion - part 2. Would ...

Sunday Morning

My new Sunday morning... Who am I kidding? I didn't have just one little croissant! We are about the get a cold spell - could be the col...

Complicated Pastry Day - Part One

Thanks for everyone's interest in my Complicated Pastry Days! It was very fun. There's a lot of 'splaining to do so this might b...

The Great Beet Crisis of 2013

This is it. The very last jar of my home canned beets. I'll soon be beetless. Then what? Wandering around aimlessly looking for some kin...

Soup and Nicholas

Looks like I need another day on the couch. Today I have soup.....and Nicholas. Talk about homemade soup! Step one was go and butcher the ch...

Warmer Weather and Sandwiches

We are expecting the weirdest weather ever in the next couple of days. Instead of looking like the Ice Planet Hoth... we are going to have s...

The First Duck Egg ... Becomes Pasta

Isn't it beautiful? We got the first duck egg of the season yesterday. It's very very small and incredibly beautiful. So of course I...

The Best Gift. EVER.

It is THE greatest Christmas gift I have ever received, or will ever receive.... and it's not even a Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in ...

Candy Cane Biscotti

Did you get suckered into the 10 for $10 boxes of candy cane sale at the store? Yeah me too. OK so what are you gonna do with all those cand...